A portable 2-transistor picowatt temperature-compensated voltage reference operating at 0.5 V

M Seok, G Kim, D Blaauw… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensing systems such as biomedical implants, infrastructure monitoring systems, and
military surveillance units are constrained to consume only picowatts to nanowatts in …

A subthreshold voltage reference with scalable output voltage for low-power IoT systems

I Lee, D Sylvester, D Blaauw - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a subthreshold voltage reference in which the output voltage is scalable
depending on the number of stacked PMOS transistors. A key advantage is that its output …

A 0.7-V 28-nW CMOS subthreshold voltage and current reference in one simple circuit

L Wang, C Zhan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low-power and high-precision voltage and current reference (VCR) in
one simple circuit. The voltage reference is derived from the threshold voltage difference …

A DC–DC boost converter with variation-tolerant MPPT technique and efficient ZCS circuit for thermoelectric energy harvesting applications

J Kim, C Kim - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a dc-dc boost converter with the maximum power point tracking (MPPT)
technique for thermoelectric energy harvesting applications. The technique realizes …

A novel 1.2–V 4.5-ppm/° C curvature-compensated CMOS bandgap reference

B Ma, F Yu - IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems I …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel CMOS bandgap reference (BGR) with high-order curvature-
compensation by using MOS transistors operating in weak inversion region. The mechanism …

Low power design for future wearable and implantable devices

K Lundager, B Zeinali, M Tohidi, JK Madsen… - Journal of low power …, 2016 - mdpi.com
With the fast progress in miniaturization of sensors and advances in micromachinery
systems, a gate has been opened to the researchers to develop extremely small …

A single-chip solar energy harvesting IC using integrated photodiodes for biomedical implant applications

Z Chen, MK Law, PI Mak… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an ultra-compact single-chip solar energy harvesting IC using on-chip solar
cell for biomedical implant applications is presented. By employing an on-chip charge pump …

Startup Techniques for 95 mV Step-Up Converter by Capacitor Pass-On Scheme and -Tuned Oscillator With Fixed Charge Programming

PH Chen, K Ishida, K Ikeuchi, X Zhang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 95 mV startup-voltage step-up DC-DC converter for energy harvesting
applications. The capacitor pass-on scheme enables operation of the system from an input …

Picowatt, 0.45–0.6 V self-biased subthreshold CMOS voltage reference

AC de Oliveira, D Cordova, H Klimach… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a self-biased temperature compensated CMOS voltage reference operating at
picowatt-level power consumption is presented. The core of the proposed circuit is the self …

A Sub- Bandgap Reference Circuit With an Inherent Curvature-Compensation Property

KK Lee, TS Lande, PD Häfliger - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new current-mode bandgap reference circuit (BGR) which is capable of generating sub-1-
V output voltage is presented. It has not only the lowest theoretical minimum current …